The Generation Of The True Worshippers - (part two)

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Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:03

We've been talking about a generation of true worshipers on last Sunday and with this Sunday, generation of true worshipers. We touched on a lot of things and may lay the foundation on last Sunday about there are people that serve God that are determined to live a truthful life, to live uh a life totally dedicated, uh, out of realness, commitment to God in this world, no matter what. And the Bible calls them true worshipers. And those are on the Bible, even says that God Himself is seeking the true worshipers. And I truly believe that those people who have been chosen to be true worshippers, who have dedicated their lives to serve God, no matter what's going on in the times, uh, what's what's what's the happenings of the day, they are gonna stay true to God. Because those people have experienced God Himself and they know Him to be real, and they know Him uh to be uh everything that His Word says He is. There's three areas I want to I want to touch on in three areas about the true worship of this morning, if I if I can. Hopefully we'll get done with this part two of uh generation of true worshipers. Uh I want to lay uh add to the foundation that we lay had on last Sunday. Um this Sunday, we thank God for this Sunday, May the 30th, uh, 2021. Three areas about a true worshiper that we need to know this morning. The first area I want I'm not saying these are the only three areas, these are just the three areas I want to deal with uh this this morning if I can. The first area of a true worshipper, he or she must. And there's nothing you can't get around this, you ain't gonna be able to bypass this. This is gonna be a characteristic of a true worshiper. Number one thing is I want to deal with he or she must love God. In order to be this, you've got to love God. In order to live this life, you got to love God. And I'm not talking about loving God with your mouth, but loving God with your lips, or just saying it with words. In your heart, you truly love God. You want to do those things that please Him. And living the life of a true worshiper is one area that you know you can please him because you are worshiping Him from a true Everything you do for God, if you love God as a true worshipper, everything you do for God is gonna be real. You're gonna have God in mind, no matter what you do. Even when you because when you interact with people and the way you treat people, it's gonna be as a result of how you feel about God. Because you're gonna it's gonna be in your mind, God told me to love my enemy. That's gonna be in the back of your mind, not to please the person, but because of God. You're doing it because of who you love. You're doing it because you love God. You must love God. Another reason why you got to why I say you gotta love God is because the Bible says, Jesus Himself said, if you love me, you keep my words. Another passage of script says, You keep my commandments. It's all in there. If you love God, you're gonna do what His words say do. You're not gonna fight against it, you're not gonna kick against it. You're not gonna, you're not gonna be rebellious against it. You're not gonna be stubborn against it. You're not gonna just pick out what you want to keep and and and disobey the rest of them. No, not a true worshiper. A true worshipper is gonna see God's words is the same way they see God. In other words, if you love God, you're gonna love his word. And when I say love his word, I mean all of it. Not just the part about the blessings, not just the part about the rewards. Hallelujah. You're gonna love the part even when it says you got to suffer. You're gonna love the part even when it says you got to go through trials and tribulation. You're gonna love the part even when it says, arm yourself likewise with the same mind. I was reading the other day by my my by my brother Moses. I don't know why I love that past something in that past script. No matter how much I preached on it many times, but I still think it's some more in there. I got to dig some more, is it's some more nuggets in that script. Well, you know he's the Bible told him he came, when he came of years, or he grew up in the palace of Pharaoh, that good living, that fine living. The Bible said when he came of years, he refused to be called any longer the son of Pharaoh's daughter. But it's this part right here that gets me every time, and I said some more in there. I'm just waiting till the Holy Ghost revealed it to me. There's some more meat in this where it said, he chose rather to suffer with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a Caesar. It's a meat in that, y'all. But but but what I what I see that that big hunk of meat that Paul would say he'd made a choice. Choose, he said, chew, he chose rather. He knew he had a choice. I could stay here in this palace and keep living good, let Pharaoh take care of me, my grandpa, let my mama, his daughter keep taking take care of me, with this fine living in the palace I'm living in, or I could suffer with the people of God. And he made a choice to suffer with the people of God, because even Moses knew when the Bible says he come of years, when he came of years, it didn't just mean he grew up and got older, it also meant that he became more wiser in his mind. He sought things more spiritually, he was developing spirit because God's hand was on his life. And he knew, and he realized through the spirit of God upon his life that no matter how good this stuff looks in this palace, no matter how good I think I'm living, he realized through the Spirit of God that this is only temporary. This is only for a season. And so many of us get caught up in this world. Caught up in this world, thinking we're finna enjoy this thing for a lifetime. Y'all, this stuff is temporary. This stuff is coming to an end. And we better take on the mindset of Moses, just like Moses, if we're gonna be true worshippers, to realize what's more valuable. To suffer now with the people of God, it means there's gonna be a great reward as a result of. Because see, that's gonna bring me to my next, that's my next outline about three things I want to talk about this morning about true worship. But I want to focus on you got to love God, or you ain't gonna do this. You got to love God, or you ain't gonna live this life. Moses, if you understand and take your time to really read between the lines and that and that outline, you'll see that he came when he came himself. That also means he came to a love for God more than his own adopted mama. Because the book said he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh, the other word, he was willing to give up his mama. Now she wasn't this biological mother, but she's the one that raised him in the palace. That was that's this that's like his that was like his mama, his own mama he knew. But he was willing to give up her for Jesus. And when you love God, you'll give up things in this world that's gonna hinder you from getting close to God, the one you love. Now, see, the world don't thank you a fool. Because if you want to give up some some of this stuff that we hold on now, if we wants to give you, the world will thank you a fool. But be but see, but before heaven, you'll be you you'll you'll become wise because you see you seeing things clearly from eyes that's not clouded by the material things of this world. Eyes that's not clouded by distractions, things that's trying to keep you from coming into the knowledge of God. Because if you keep reading about Moses, you'll see what the Bible said after he chose to suffer with the people of God. You'll see what the if you keep reading that, you'll read what the Bible said. He had recompense, he had respect to the recompense of the reward. He knew what the end was gonna be. If he suffered with the people of God now, he knew the reward of suffering now. He also knew the results of trying to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, what that reward was gonna be too. And you and I sure enough need to know that this stuff we holding on to, we're gonna come to a detrimental end. We're gonna come, if we hold on to the stuff of this world and not love God as we ought to love God, we're gonna come to an end that we don't want. My Bible says a cry gonna be made. A cry that ain't never been heard before, ever. And you don't want to be on that end with that group of people that's making that cry because now they realize they have wasted their time. They realize now that they have uh time to run out and it's too late to get it right. You got the love God, or you're not gonna live this life, the life of a true worshiper. You got to love him. I mean loving more than anything, more than anybody in this world. Number two. You got to give up the world. I won't let that soak in. And this is an area I want to deal with because it's gonna be very hard for a lot of people, and it is very hard even now for a lot of people to give, completely give up the world. I'm gonna tell you what makes it so hard for some of us to give up the world. Because for a lot of us, this world is all we've ever known. And when you when you living according to all you've ever known, it's very hard for you to let it go. Pastor Dickerson, what in the world are you talking about? To some of us, this world is all we ever know, the ways of this world is all we've ever known. The conditions of this world is all we've ever known. Well, see, here's another thing too that makes it so hard. All of us, hallelujah. All of us have come from different worlds. I know what I just said, y'all. Let's hold on. I'm gonna I'm gonna explain when I said that. But I want you to hear me. All of us have come from different worlds. See, some of us have come out of a world of abuse. Some of us have come out of a world where parents wasn't really the type of parents we wish we could have had. Some of us have come out of worlds of addiction. Alcoholics. All mom and dad did do. Well, I remember growing up, that's uh some people, this is not my testimony, but this is I've people's testimony I've I've I've counseled over you. All they ever known was mom and daddy drinking. Hard is on the weekend. Cussing and acting a fool. Some of us don't come out of some of us have come out of those kind of worlds. Some of us have come out of a world where there was no going no church. Never know what going to church was. Like I said, some of us have come out of home, there wasn't anything but abuse going on. Abusive, violence. Some of us have come out of of abusive marriages. Some of us have come out of worlds where poverty didn't have enough to eat. Struggle. We've come from different worlds, different past, raised differently, different environments, different atmospheres. But I'm here to tell you. And then on top of that, we were in a society, in a country, in a nation, under a government that we've only known this type of lifestyle in this country and this n this this nation. But I'm here to tell you, we're gonna have to give up the world and let go of the conditions. Let go of what it has done to us in order to become a true worshiper, we gotta totally allow God to heal us because the damage that has been done in our lives by whatever means, by whoever caused it, it's gonna be a hindrance or a stumbling block unto us, even when it comes to serving God. Say what you will, think what you will. All of us have been conditioned by something just by us living in this world. We might not want to admit it, we might not even know the full extent of it. We might have come so blinded to it because it has happened so much and it has been there all the time, we have probably come numb to it and blinded to it. But as a result, we all have been conditioned by something in this world just by being a part of this world, being born in this world. But if you're gonna be a true worshiper, you gotta seek him who is able. Seek him who has the power. Hallelujah. Seek him who is able to cause and to bring healing from the damage that has been done unto our lives, our hearts, and our mind. We got to be willing to give it all up for him. Yes, Lord, I've been hurt. Yes, Lord, I've been through this. Yes, Lord, my childhood was this. But Lord, I'm trusting you to bring healing to my life. Oh God, that I may serve you. While anything that comes out of this world bring a hindrance until my service to you. I was reading in, I was reading in 2 Timothy. I'm gonna read a little of it to you. I was reading a little in that 2 Timothy, that 2nd chapter in 2 Timothy. I was reading a couple of verses this morning. It says, 2 Timothy 2 and 3, it says, Thou therefore endure, listen at that word now, endure hardness as a good soldier. In other words, it's gonna it's gonna get some it's gonna be some hard time. Because see, the devil don't want you to be free, and the world don't want you to be free, but you got to endure that hardness. You got to go through, you got to take it. Endure hardness, it says, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, know who you belong to. And no matter no matter how hard your situation may be, know this ain't no situation harder than Jesus. Can't no situation stop Jesus from being there for you when you need him, even in times of hardness, even in times of going through. Listen to what he said in verse 4. He says, this is talking about a person who has dedicated themselves to Jesus. He said, No man that warred, you've got to see this as warfare. You got to see this coming into coming into the knowledge of a true worshiper, coming into a knowledge of a true person that's really trying to serve and seek God, you've got to see this as warfare. Because something just like you try to accomplish through Jesus, the things you need to accomplish, there's something out there that's trying to stop you from accomplishing what you need to accomplish through Jesus. This is warfare. Something trying to stop you while at the same time you're not trying to be stopped. In your heart, you determine. Ain't nothing gonna stop them. But in but in the other, the dog spirit, the dog side, they Yeah, we're gonna stop you. Because we don't want you serving no Jesus. But this is what the Bible said. No man that warreth. See, this one man, if your mind set is gonna be to fight and to suffer with the people of God, you got to lock your mind and set it. He says, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. Listen at that. If you're gonna be a soldier of Jesus Christ, if you're gonna be a true worshiper, you can't be letting yourself get all tangled up with the affairs of this life, in other words, this stuff that's going on in this world. That ain't doing nothing but hindering you or distracting you from becoming what you need to be for God. A true worshiper ain't letting himself get entangled with you because he knows it ain't nothing but mess. He knows it ain't nothing but a hindrance. He knows it ain't nothing but a stumbling block. He knows it's only designed, he or she knows it's only designed to stop you from getting close to God. And one thing a true worshipper is striving to do in this life is to get as close to God as he possibly can without anything trying to stop him. No man that warreth entangles himself with the affairs of this life. Why? That's a comma after that, because this is what his mindset is. That he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. I'm gonna say this, and I hope y'all understand what I'm saying. I understand this when it comes to true worshipers. I'm talking about true worshipers now. Everybody not no true worshipper. But here's the thing about it everybody has the potential to be that. But let me let me show you something. Let me show you, let me show you a little about God. And I can't tell you why. I just know this is a fact. I can't tell you why he does this. But this is a true fact, a biblical fact. God has chosen who he wants. Now I can't tell you why, I can't tell you who. All I know is according to the word of God, God has chosen who he wants. Let me go back and read that last part. Because some of us might have missed it. He said that he may please him, that him means God. Who has what? Chosen him to be a soldier. God has made choice of people, certain people, y'all. I don't know why, but this is what he does. This is what he and him being the creator, he can do what he wants to do. But I will say this. I will say this. I do believe, and I'm basing my what I say and my beliefs on my reading and studying of the word. I do believe this, that those who have been chosen, I believe this. That those who have been chosen by God, I believe there's something in them that lets them know that. I don't believe they really fully understand it at first, but I do believe those who God has made choice of, He lets them know in some kind of form or fashion that they you ever because see, let me say it like this. Have some of you, you ain't got to answer this, just I don't you think for a minute. Have yet some of y'all ever wonder why you can't do what everybody else do? Have some of you ever wondered why, no matter how many times you might have messed up, you still can't leave God. You still can't stop serving Him. Have you ever wondered why your heart, your mind. All you want to do, you cannot leave God. You cannot stop seeking Him. I'm saying that because I believe that those who are chosen of God, they might not realize it, it might be years down the road before you fully realize, because I know I didn't. I do believe this. That God has put something in all those that would be His chosen. You remember the Bible? Some of y'all remember there's a there's a passage in the Bible says the stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. That being said, I'm I'm trying to make a point here that what God has placed in some of us, some of us not gonna really tap into it to further down the road. The more you walk, if you continue to walk with God, to continue to live with God, sooner or later you're gonna realize that your life is not to be lived like others. Yeah, you go through things like everybody else, you deal with things like everybody else, you have ups and downs like everybody else, but there's something down inside of you that has been placed in there in you by God. You didn't put it there. This is God doing because he has made choice. Look at all the people in the Bible. If you study the Bible, those that God made choice of. They messed up. You know what I mean? Come on now. You don't think Abraham messed up? You don't think Moses messed up? Paul and all of them, but they couldn't leave God. They still yielded themselves to the will of God. See, when God put his hands on you, when God got his mark on you. I remember one thing that helped me in my living for God. I keep I always remember when God, when that day he chose Paul. And uh we remember the part about the Damascus road, but you got you got to remember the other parts too. The part that I like the part about the Damascus road, don't get me wrong, when the Lord knocked knocked the devil out of him on the Damascus road, but it was that part when he was led by the hand to Damascus, and Jesus himself spoke to Ananias to go lay his hands on him so he can be saved. And how Ananias, he was already saved, he was already a disciple. He was telling Jesus in the vision. I done heard about this Paul. I done heard about this Paul and how he the things he done done to the church and the Christian and the saints of God. And uh, but this part they always get me when Jesus told Alan I said, go on down there and do what I told you to do. I'm paraphrasing that part. But he said to him, I must, he done made choice of Paul. He said, and I must show him what things he must suffer for me. Hallelujah. Woo! I'm trying to show y'all when you I'm trying to give y'all a glimpse of how you can tell when you know you've been chosen by God. Hallelujah. Because you're gonna suffer. I ain't trying to make that sound bad. I'm trying to say it's not make it sound good, which sounds crazy. How are you trying to make suffering sound good? Because when you suffer for Jesus, when you have been chosen to suffer for Jesus, I know it's gonna sound crazy, but that is an honor. Let your spiritual man under hear what I'm saying. When Jesus has chosen you to suffer for him, you've been chosen. Jesus can't choose everybody to suffer him because everybody don't want to suffer for him. But when you have been chosen to suffer for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you have been chosen to a high honor. And when you're trying to live that life of what you worship, you are trying to please him who has chosen you to be a soldier in his kingdom. Which means you got to give up, like Moses, you got to give up this palace living that you think you live in. That's why it's so hard for some people, because some of us have allowed our hearts to get wrapped up in things. Like that rich young ruder. That we can't even give it up for Jesus. So what? If you never get that big house. So what? If you don't get that car, you always want it. So what? If you got Jesus. If we only understood how greater value having Jesus in our life, he's more valuable than any earthly possession could ever be. He is our exceedingly great reward. Jesus is our reward. You remember what God told the the children of Levi out of them twelve tribes? When everybody else was getting inheritance, but Levi, the tribe of Levi, God said, I'm gonna be y'all inheritance. Which means they got better than the 12 tribes. They got land. And a portion of the land here and a portion of the land. But the tribe of Levi, because they were the keepers of the temple, God became their inheritor. Now come on now. When God is your inheritance, you got the greater thing. Listen, our treasure ain't supposed to be on this earth. We ain't supposed to treasure nothing on this earth nowhere. Show me in the Bible what God tells us to treasure this stuff on this earth. My Bible tells me, this is what the Bible tells us. That all this stuff is gonna pass away. You remember what Jesus said? He said, ain't gonna be one stone left on another. This stuff is gonna pass away, y'all. But we done killed ourselves almost to get it, to have it. Now, if I'm gonna kill myself, I'd rather be trying to kill myself to have more Jesus. Hallelujah. I hope somebody grabbed that. I'd rather kid, I'd rather be suffering to have more Jesus. Suffering with the people of God, the other true worshipers. I'd rather be suffering with the other true worshippers, the other people of God that's trying to get close to God. I'd rather be suffering with them. Then allowing the cares of this world, as the Bible said, to choke out the word, which means choke out what God is trying to put in me. Some of this stuff we holding on to ain't doing nothing but choking out God, the little God we did have. And we just sit up letting ourselves get choked to death when we should be trying to do all we can to get more of Him. There's a reason why he said, I must decrease, and he must increase. Each and every day of our lives. Accept it if you will, you ain't got to accept it. But each and every day of our lives, God should be increasing more in us, and we who we think we are should be decreasing more and more. We should be coming less and less, and he should be coming more and more in our lives. With this number two outline, you've got to give up the world. In other words, you got to see, you got to see that there is something greater waiting on us. And any time, you know, there's a passage in the Bible that uh Abraham them, he said, they look for a city with foundations whose builder and maker is God. See, when we start seeing that this world is not our home, this place you're in right now is not your home, you'll stop loving it so much. This is not our home, y'all. The moment you became a part of the body of Christ, you remember when Jesus told y'all, I think I told y'all this before. Y'all. When when when when Jesus was standing before Pilate, and Pilate was about to have him crucified, Jesus said, My kingdom is not of this world. So the kingdom that we are part of, y'all, is not of this world. This God, oh, I could say some. This government is not our government. It's the government of the of this earth, of this nation. But our governor is Jesus. Our ruler is Jesus. And we should be trying to strive each and every day to live as citizens of his kingdom. Third outline. Let me move on. Third outline. I think somebody's phone needs to be on mute. I hear somebody. One more important thing I want to one important thing. I want to drive home. I want to drive home. Oh. About a true worshiper. You're gonna have to see yourself as a son or a daughter of God who has been chosen to live this life. Let me let me say this while I go on to my third outline. We're gonna have to realize this one thing. If you have been chosen to live for God, you're gonna have to accept that. Listen. And see, some of us are stubborn and rebellious because we don't want to give up the world. In my younger days, with a call on my life, with God's hand on my life, I tried to run from God. And I've told y'all the stories. I've ran 17 years. Didn't want to live right, didn't want to live according to the word, didn't want to teach the word, didn't want to preach the word. But it was when God's gonna give me one more chance, and he took me to the word of God in that passage of scripture that says the axe is laid at the root of the tree. Telling me he's finna go to cut my life off and cut my life down. Because if God wants you to serve him, live for him, don't you know you can't get out of it? You ain't got no choice. He ain't giving you no choice. The only choice you have is to say yes, Lord, or he's gonna chastise you. He's gonna punish you. He's gonna make you run to him. Ask Jonah. When that fish finally did spit him out on dry land, ask Jonah how many days it took him to make a three-day journey. When God wants you, ain't nothing you can do but surrender. My Bible tells me Jonah made a three-day journey. He was running so far, God done scared him so bad. The Bible said he made a three-day journey in one day. Now that's moving. And for some of us, it's gonna take that. Because some of us got that rebellious spirit like Jonah. But I'm here to tell you, when God gets through with you, you're gonna make that journey quick and get where you're supposed to be. And stop chucking and jabbing, and stop procrastinating, and stop being rebellious, stop being stubborn, and resurrender your will. Surrender yourself to God and say, Yes, Lord, I'll obey. Yes, Lord, I'll do your will. Just show me, Lord. Show me what I need to do. Help me. So that I can serve you. Because if God has made choice of you, it's a job He wants you to do. And you ought to be glad to do it, to do whatever God asks you to do. Some of us right now got some testimonies. God done done great things in your life. I mean miraculous things in your life. But yet it's still we don't want to obey. We we hate to obey. But you gonna obey. Let me get to my third outline. About a true worship. I started out saying you got to love God and you got to give up the world, number two. Now, number three is I'm trying to find it here. Number three. And it's gonna help the true worshiper to maintain and stay the course. That's one thing we gotta stay the course, y'all, and we got to stay focused. The third thing I'm gonna say in this outline is a true worshiper, he's gonna continue with the life he now lives in Jesus Christ. Because his main focus or her main focus is to endure to the end. Let me read something to you. In the book of Matthew, chapter 24, just three verses, 11, 12, and 13. He says, and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. See, when you're a true worshipper, you always stand in guard against somebody saying something false about the word of God. But here's the thing about it: you cannot yourself know what's false when somebody speaks to you something that's not true in the word if you don't know the word yourself. That's why studying and committing yourself to the word is vital. Because we're gonna, this is gonna be it's a lot of false prophets in this world, y'all. There's a lot of false preachers, pastors, missionary, whatever you want to call them. There's some false ones out there. And they are deceiving many. Let me read that again. And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. They're gonna fool a lot of people. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. We see that now. This world, love is just unleft the world. Understand what I'm saying now? I say love done left the world, but it'll never leave the hearts of God's people. Because that's what true love abides. Verse 13. But here it is, he that shall endure until the end. See, we're gonna, it's a whole lot of stuff we're gonna have to endure, y'all. We're gonna take a whole lot of stuff. But thanks be unto Jesus, his power will equip us to endure until the end. He said, but he that shall endure until the end, the same shall be saved. If you can just endure to the end, and that's why you ain't got time to be distracted by mess and stuff, y'all. Some of us, most of us got too much going on. We put too much time in other areas and very little time in the things of God. Now I'll let you just I'll let you determine what's in your life that you put too much time in. That ain't got nothing to do with Jesus. Ain't got nothing to do with God. I'll let you determine that. I'll let you see God and him pointing that out to you. I can't point that out to you because Lord knows I'm trying to get him to point stuff out in my life. If I'm putting too much time in something, then I should be putting that time to him. I need him to be showing me my stuff. But you should need, you need to be letting him seeking him to show you your stuff. We don't need nothing that's gonna hinder us from enduring to the end, because you don't get credit for none of this stuff you're going through. Oh, let's think about all the stuff you don't you done dealt with now, all the time you done put in. But you know you ain't gonna get credit for none of that if you don't endure to the end. If you don't go all the way to the end, you get credit for none of that. Because everything is determined. If we hold out to the end, if we endure the false prophet, endure not letting ourselves be deceived, endure love, waxing coal in the world, hatred, talked about trials, tribulations. If we don't endure all, we got to do it, endure all of it. And not just endure it, but we got to endure it all the way to the end. Because this Jesus talking in the book of Matthew, 24th chapter, this Jesus talking. Then he said, the same shall be saved. In other words, then you have made it. Why do you think the Bible said the Father seeketh, sisters, to worship him? Because God already knows. The only ones that's gonna make it, y'all, and I don't mean no harm, the only people that's gonna make it all the way to the end and be saved are the true worshipers. God knows that's why he that's why the Bible says the Father seeketh such to worship him. Because he knows them the ones gonna make it. And if you want to make it, you should be finding yourself seeking another place in God, a higher place in God. Have we not wasted enough time? We should be seeking a place in God. Places we should be trying to strive to go to places in God that we've never gone before. We should be seeking certain heights in God that we never reached before. We should be digging deeper in God's word in places we've never dug the depths of before. We should be feeding on the richness of his truth, as though we have we are starving for more, constantly feeding, as though we're never getting full, constantly feeding, because we feed, we should be striving to feed that hunger and that thirst for righteousness until we are filled, until we get filled, we need to keep on eating, keep on chewing, keep on feasting on the truth of his word. If we're going to be true worshipers, we got to be true to everything that is God, to everything that is the Father, to everything that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to everything that is the Holy Ghost. And keeping a focus and a determination that I'm gonna make it to the end. I'm determined to endure. There may be days, yeah, the Bible teaches that we should encourage ourselves. Encourage one another. But there are gonna be many days you're gonna have to encourage yourself. But I'm here to tell you, you're not alone. Because there are gonna be times that the Holy Ghost won't be there to comfort you. The Spirit of God and can't nothing comfort you like the Spirit of God. God know when you really need that special comforter. But your heart and mind, let it be fixed, not to give up, but to endure. It ain't no time to turn around, ain't no time to give up. It's time to hold on. Hold on. With everything in you. By faith. Keep the faith, saints. Keep the faith and endure. Keep the faith and be a true worshiper. Keep the faith and serve him, please him who has chosen you. In the name of Jesus. Lord God, we thank you. Thank you for your word. Thank you, Lord, for your understanding, your revelation of your truth. Those of us, Lord, who will be your true worshipers, strengthen us. As we make the choice to suffer with the people of God, as we make the choice to endure all the way to the end, so that we may be saved. Touch us now with your anointing. We ask that forgiveness over our lives. For in the hindrances, distractions that we have allowed in our lives, and our hearts and minds, and we pray, Lord, that you will remove them, eradicate them out of us, that only your spirit abides in us. Open our eyes to see that you are all we need. You are all we need. And we pray that you will come to more in our lives each and every day. In the name of Jesus. We thank you. Hallelujah. We thank you and we love you. In Jesus' name. Thank God. Amen. Amen. Amen.